Mexico City Dive Bars

You've just reached one of the best places to find some good dive bars in Mexico City. As a resident of the city, I want you to benefit from a lot of the leg work my friends and I had to do to find great, cheap places to drink with cool people. What's a dive bar? Generally I see it as a place where the beer is cheap, where the place has character but is usually not "trendy", and where a crowd from many walks of life congregates. My friends and I have a few rules in reporting a dive bar. First, the beers have to be equal or less than 25 pesos (about $2 US), preferably much less. Second, the place has to be a legit bar, not a restaurant with cheap drinks. Third, we have to have been there at a time when it was full of cool, fun people or we won't recommend it.
In all reviews we'll try to include a short description, the intersection the bar is nearest to, what the beers cost us, at least one photo, and any other pertinent information, like a metro stop nearby. Enjoy!

Hija De Los Apaches: Dr. Claudio Bernard #149, between Dr. Carmona y Valle y Dr. Lucio, Col. Doctores, metro Línea 1 Cuahutémoc or Balderas

I have to credit my pal Ashton for pointing this exceptional bar out to me. It sits a block and a half from a great art space in Colonia Doctores (http://www.estacionindianilla.com.mx/) so it makes for a great stop after a culture-filled afternoon. I have yet to go back to this place at night but it was really lively even at 4pm. Picture a cantina over run by youngsters listening to rock and drinking 25 peso caguamas (liter size beers). A few old timers still hang out there too and tend to prefer putting down tall mugs of the assortment of pulques available. Pulque is a cactus based alcoholic drink that I tend to despise due to it's slimy consistency, but never the less it adds a unique color to the dive bar's drink menu and a true taste of Mexican history. Top it all off with waiters running around in Nietzsche t-shirts and you start to get the idea...a very unique, cool experience. This is the kind of place that I love to write about on the blog and share with others. I’m really looking forward to taking a couple friends here on a second visit, preferably a weekend night. BTW, be careful in Colonia Doctores, especially at night...don't go here by yourself at 10pm, ok?